Word: 1960s
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Traub's strategy proved to be successful. The company began international promotion in the 1960s, and had grown into a billion dollar corporation by the 1980s...
...other hand, gunshot victims who live to tell about it often owe their survival to the vast improvements in emergency trauma care since the 1960s. Not only are response times faster, but treatment often begins right at the scene as highly trained paramedics work under the direct radio supervision of physicians back at the hospital. In the most serious cases, paramedics may have already started intravenous fluids, inserted breathing tubes and alerted doctors about what to expect even before the victim arrives...
...public health, he co-authored a law-journal paper with his professor, Stephen Teret, in which he used epidemiological evidence to explore handgun injuries: how they occurred and who was involved. The study raised the intriguing possibility of assessing gun manufacturers for damages. "We have learned since the 1960s, with both tobacco and motor vehicles, that explicitly holding the manufacturers accountable for what their products do has real benefit," says Wintemute...
...1960s, a second class of antidepressants emerged. By tinkering with the chemical structure of antihistamines, a Swiss psychiatrist, Ronald Kuhn, created a drug called imipramine, first of the so-called tricyclic antidepressants. At the time no one had any idea why these medicines worked. Researchers have since learned that they keep excess serotonin and other neurotransmitters from being reabsorbed into the nerve cells they originally came from: same extended neurotransmitter bath as the MAO inhibitors, different mechanism...
...Ahab. His name was not Eugene Mallon, as he had conned the French villagers into believing. Nor was he a British writer who had settled in remotest France for quiet inspiration. He was an American fugitive named Ira Einhorn, a man who had risen to fame during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a counterculture guru. Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman were friends, logically enough. But so was an unlikely battalion of bluebloods, millionaires and corporate executives, many of them so charmed by Einhorn's New Age vision that they stood by him even after his arrest...